Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)

from Boinc FAQ most likely this is the problem

2. When running into this error on CUDA and your driver is above the minimum of 177.35, but your BOINC version is below 6.6.20, this may be a stuck task in the video-memory. Do a full power-cycle, aka reboot your computer, to clear up anything stuck in memory.

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OK, it's consistent in its insistence that it's a Cuda error and an unknown error at that. I see it's not that they won't run on CUDA devices either, as some of your wingmen managed to run them to completion on other CUDA capable cards.

So I think it is your card. Either it's woefully incapable of running these Seti tasks, or it's damaged. Not damaged enough to be noticed in games (as there it wouldn't show a couple of pixels, which is something you won't notice anyway), but enough when trying to do these calculations.

Do you have a possibility to check with another card?

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Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)

from Boinc FAQ most likely this is the problem

Yes, we'd been there already in this post and beyond. I wrote that FAQ, you know? ;-)

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Hi Ageless... judging by the time of your post, you don't seem to sleep much...
Hope I didn't keep you up thinking all night... ;)

Do you have a possibility to check with another card?

The GeF 8500GT is a PCI express card on an ASUS P5B board.
The best ones of the others I have available are 2 ATI cards - namely a 128MB Radeon 9250 (CGA-9258AR) and a 64MB Radeon 7000 (GC-R7000L-B3) - both of which I very much doubt will support CUDA...or have even heard of it when they were manufactured.

However, (I did loose sleep over this...) I found that the GeF 8500GT was being probed every 3000ms by RivaTuner (low-level-sensor software for NVIDIA system monitoring gadget), though the fan clock is not controlled by it.

I've disabled RivaTuner temporarily to see if there is any changes in the computation results. It may be that during the probing it's affecting the processes in the GPU...

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Hi Ageless... judging by the time of your post, you don't seem to sleep much...
Hope I didn't keep you up thinking all night... ;)

Nah, I had enough sleep. All of 6 hours was enough for me. :-)

The best ones of the others I have available are 2 ATI cards - namely a 128MB Radeon 9250 (CGA-9258AR) and a 64MB Radeon 7000 (GC-R7000L-B3) - both of which I very much doubt will support CUDA...or have even heard of it when they were manufactured.

They don't. CUDA is Nvidia's way of doing things. ATI uses Stream SDK CAL, a whole other process not in use yet by Seti. And then neither of these cards can do CAL.

I did send off your errors to one of the CUDA developers at Nvidia. He may shed some light on what they are caused by. When he replies, I will let you know.

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Brilliant!

I'll be eagerly waiting for any news...
Thanks very much for all the help.

All of 6 hours was enough for me. :-)

...you had a lie-in...!!! ;))

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Ok, the first reply seems to indicate it is a problem with the memory on your card. Whether that's a true memory problem, or something to do with the amount of memory on the card, my source isn't sure of. He has never seen a 8500 GT with 1GB of memory.

Can you remember where you bought it from?
Perhaps an online link I can send him?

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Hi, Ageless,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner...

Can you remember where you bought it from?
Perhaps an online link I can send him?

I bought it from my local wholesaler...here is the link for product details page (it's Point of View branded):

http://www.pointofview-online.com/showroom.php?shop_mode=product_detail&product_id=30

After deactivating the RivaTuner (as I said a few posts ago), the first result back from the server for the CUDA tasks seems to be valid (see it here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1407288881).

HOWEVER: I just came on the post because the unthinkable has occurred... my desktop (computer link: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5154787) has just literally blown up!!

I had it configured so that it would carry on with the CUDA tasks while the computer was not in use...all fine until now. As I came back on after nipping out for cigarettes, it correctly suspended the CUDA task but the tower suddenly made a very loud crackling sound and a cloud of smoke came out!

Just now I'm assessing damages... will let you know... :(((

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Just now I'm assessing damages... will let you know... :(((

Oh, ouch... it either wanted to smoke as well, or just thought the PSU wasn't capable anymore. Hope there's not much else damaged!

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Electronics are magic. They run on magic smoke. When the magic smoke escapes, they stop working.

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